Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Ghanan Ghanan Ghir Aaye Badra!!

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I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one,
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,
As she dances about the sun.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.
~ Percy Shelley



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The clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
~ Ruth Bernhard



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A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.


~ Richard Bach




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O! it is pleasant with a heart at ease,
Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,
To make the shifting clouds be what you please,
Or let the easily persuaded eyes
Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould
Of a friend's fancy; or with head bent low
And cheek aslant see rivers flow of gold
'Twixt crimson banks; and then, a traveller, go
From mount to mount through Cloudland, gorgeous land!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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While favouring breezes waft thee gently forth,
And while upon thy left the plover sings
His proud, sweet song, the cranes who know thy worth
Will meet thee in the sky on joyful wings
And for delights anticipated join their rings.
~ Kalidas


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CLOUD-MAIDENS that float on forever,
Dew-sprinkled, fleet bodies, and fair,
Let us rise from our Sire's loud river,
Great Ocean, and soar through the air
To the peaks of the pine-covered mountains where the pines hang as tressed of hair.  

~ Aristophanes





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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

 ~ Rabindranath Tagore

4 comments:

Ashok Maheshwari said...

very nice!

Gopal Wagh said...

It simply reminds me song by Mukesh ....
Yeh Kaun Chitrakar Hai? Yeh Kaun Chitrakar...

Just fantastic & superb!!! Beyond the words...

kalpana Malani said...

great pictures - loved the accompanying words. Cloud watching is one of my favourite passtimes.

Milind Chitnavis said...

'Wow' to all!